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Cleanliness is next to Fitness

Friday, June 28, 2013

I’ve been catching up on my cleaning this week. First I got
into my closet and let go of a serious amount of clothing I am never going to
wear again. Not all these bags came from my closet, just the big bags.

Donation time

Good news: lots of the clothes were too big or just didn’t
hang right on my body now.

Bad news: I still have bins of cute, classy clothes I can’t
fit in. I sigh as I write this because I know the solution is simple: eat
smart, move more. But, I am a blogger and
home office administrator who sits to work.

BUT, I am also a homemaker who loves a neat, clean home. The
solution, or at least part of the solution for me getting into those cute
clothes is to clean more, sit less.

I set this in motion right away, planning wahm that I am, by
giving my floors a good scrubbing.

No Swiffer action here, no ma’am.

I’m talking old school, double sweep, double mop with
bucket, ringing out the Lemon Lysol water type scrubbing. I even
cleaned the baseboards while I was at it. That’s a perk of mopping floors
old-school, you get clean baseboards too.

By the time I’d completed the kitchen, foyer and three baths
I was sweaty. No lie. Like I’d completed
a good fast walk. Clean floors, good smelling house and I broke a sweat?

Win!

My clean kitchen floor. Bare feet bliss.

I felt so good about it; I had to check how many calories
and hour or so of scrubbing floors burned. According to Fitness Magazine, I burned 112 calories per 30
minutes. I worked for about an hour, so my total would be 224!

Next time I’m feeling bad because I didn’t work out, I’m
going to get up and clean something!